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The Linnean NEWSLETTER and PROCEEDINGS of the LINNEAN SOCIETY of LONDON The Linnean NEWSLETTER AND PROCEEDINGS OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY OF LONDON Volume 36 Number 2 November 2020 Orchids: NBN at 20: J. E. Harting FLS: 19th-century paintings Celebrating the National Crustacean annotations from India Biodiversity Network AND MORE... Communicating nature since 1788 The Linnean Society of London Burlington House, Piccadilly, London W1J 0BF UK Toynbee House, 92–94 Toynbee Road, Wimbledon SW20 8SL UK (by appointment only) +44 (0)20 7434 4479 www.linnean.org [email protected] @LinneanSociety President SECRETARIES COUNCIL Dr Sandra Knapp Scientific The Officers () Vice Presidents Vice Presidents Prof. Alan Hildrew Prof. Simon Hiscock Kevin Coutinho Prof. Anjali Goswami Dr Natasha de Vere Dr Olwen Grace Editorial Mathew Frith Prof. Simon Hiscock Prof. Beverley Glover Prof. Max Telford Prof. Mark Chase FRS Dr Charlotte Grezo Collections Prof. Paul Henderson CBE Treasurer Prof. Alistair Hetherington Edward Banks Dr John David Stephanie Holt Angus McCullough QC Dr Silvia Pressel Elaine Shaughnessy THE TEAM Executive Secretary Financial Controller & Conservator Dr Elizabeth Rollinson Membership Officer Janet Ashdown Priya Nithianandan Head of Collections Special Publications Manager Dr Isabelle Charmantier Buildings & Office Manager Leonie Berwick Librarian Helen Shaw Education & Public Engagement Will Beharrell Communications & Events Manager Joe Burton Archivist Manager Padma Ghosh Multimedia Content Producer c Ross Ziegelmeier Liz M Gow Room Hire & Membership Assistant Archivist Assistant Tatiana Franco BioMedia Meltdown Project Luke Thorne Manager Daryl Stenvoll-Wells Digital Assets Manager Archivist emerita Andrea Deneau Engagement Research & Gina Douglas Delivery Officer Zia Forrai Editor Publishing in The Linnean Gina Douglas The Linnean is published twice a year, in spring and autumn. All [email protected] contributions are welcome, but please contact the Editor or see Production Editor the Guidelines for Contributors document on our website before Leonie Berwick writing and submitting articles (www.linnean.org/thelinnean). [email protected] Articles should be emailed to the Editor in MS Word format. Images should be sent as JPEGs or TIFFs at no less than 300dpi. Correct copyright information should accompany the images. The Linnean Steering Group Dr Fernando Vega Cover image: Cattleya dowiana, courtesy of the Trustees of the British Prof. Pieter Baas Museum Dr Michael R Wilson Dr Mary Morris ISSN 0950-1096 Charity Reference No. 220509 The Linnean Newsletter and Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London Editorial / Gina Douglas 1 Society News / Elizabeth Rollinson 2 Collections News / Isabelle Charmantier 4 Correspondence / Two Elephants in the Room? 7 National Biodiversity Network at 20: Past, Present and Future/ Mandy Henshall 9 Contents An Album of Trichinopoly Orchid Paintings/ H. J. Noltie FLS 18 Anna Louisa Jane and Her Portrait of James Edward Smith / Graham Rowe FLS 26 J. E. Harting FLS: His Annotated Copy of Thomas Bell's British Stalk-Eyed Crustacea / R. B. Williams FLS 34 In Memoriam / 2020 41 Book Reviews 43 Anniversary Meeting 2020: Minutes 49 Editorial iversity, in all its various contexts, is currently a global subject of discussion. Looking back at the Society’s recent past, it is positive to note just how much Ddiversity there has been in our activities and our involvements. However there is much to be done to improve upon it. We are working towards this. Our ‘Collections’ (specimens, books, manuscripts, correspondence) are now increasingly accessible and reflect worldwide interests, a snapshot of the wide network of past and present Fellowship links. Diversity in the natural world is reflected in our Charter, with all branches of natural history falling within our remit; the Society embraces everything from palaeobotany to parasitology. Our current journals continue to communicate science at an international level, with special access for low income countries through EIFL and Research4Life. Our educational resources are available to all, helping to achieve a wider understanding of the natural world. The egalitarian nature of our Fellowship means that both amateur and professional meet as equals. Our Officers and staff have had global representation over the years, from the Swedish Jonas Dryander to Eve Williams, a subject of this issue’s ‘In Memoriam’. Yet work is progressing behind the scenes to further increase the diversity of our Fellowship, events, opportunities and resources. The record number of Fellows attending this year’s virtual Anniversary Meeting has showed that opening up our meetings online can enable a fuller discussion. Gina Douglas, Editor [email protected] 1 THE LINNEAN VOL 36(2) NOVEMBER 2020 he Society is rising to the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic by increasing our outreach to the global Fellowship—as exemplified by the virtual Anniversary TMeeting/AGM in May. Many Fellows have been joining our live-streamed events, including talks on island species diversity, nature printing, flies, and bryophytes. In the immediate future we anticipate continuing to live-stream most of our events, providing the Fellowship and wider public with an increasingly diverse programme of events. New Trustees, plus a refreshed Vision & Mission We are fortunate to have five new Trustees with a wealth of diverse expertise (www. linnean.org/trustees), as our refreshed Society seeks to achieve our vision of a world where nature is understood, valued and protected, through our mission to inform, involve Society News and inspire people of all ages and backgrounds about nature and its wider interactions through our collections, programmes and publications (www.linnean.org/vision). Supporting young researchers in Taxonomy & Systematics The Society is delighted to have almost doubled its funding contribution under the Systematics Research Fund (SRF) which is administered in collaboration with the Systematics Association. 2020 sees 55 projects across a diverse range of habitats and species on all continents, including sub-Antarctic tardigrades, extinct hippos on Madagascar, cyanobacteria, hyper-parasitic fungi in bats, coralline algae, wild tulip conservation, and cycads and their obligate pollination mutualists. The SRF is being rebranded as the LinnéSys Fund for the 2020/2021 round, which will open in December. Equality, Diversity, Inclusion We welcomed Events and Communications Manager Padmaparna Ghosh in mid-June, who has since worked on the Society’s response to equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI), which was brought into sharp focus by the Black Lives Matter movement. Padma organised a panel event in September in order to explore how the Society could make a difference for under-represented communities in the study of natural history. Of the initiatives proposed—providing bursaries and grants to widen participation in nature, leveraging the Society’s BioMedia Meltdown science-meets-art project in underprivileged areas in London, and setting up a mentoring system—the panel agreed that all were good ways forward but particularly felt that mentoring would have a beneficial impact on individuals. Similarly, we were delighted with the response to our Linnean Learning call to Fellows to engage in an inspirational week-long collaboration with Stemettes, for which we had 13 Linnean role models interacting online with around 150 participants keen to learn more about working in nature. In another initiative, Council resolved in May to use the unique platform of the Society to highlight, communicate, and facilitate action addressing the impacts of the planetary emergency on our natural world. Look out for dedicated pages on the website to learn how the Society is contributing to efforts to achieve this aim. of London © The Linnean Society Images 2 Society News Educating & engaging online Our Linnean Learning team has been busy, with the BioMedia Meltdown competition (9–13-year-olds) being judged virtually on Instagram by the public; BMM Project Manager Daryl Stenvoll-Wells was interviewed for Forbes magazine about her fresh take on the competition. On Instagram we published a series of animated videos about viruses, highlighting the useful ecological role of these fascinating entities (they are not all bad!). A three-part online beginners’ guide to drawing animals proved a family favourite, while Nature Weeks’ comprised four week-long projects for 12–16-year-olds, to engage with young role models through science and the arts, themed across four habitats: under the ground, in the water, on the land and out in space. We announced the winners of the Linnaeus Portrait Competition, which this year was to create an image of Linnaeus’ pet raccoon Sjupp (see above). And keep visiting the website to enjoy our newly-released podcasts and animations. L: 50 & 2020 Christmas cards Finally, we are proud to announce the upcoming publication of L: 50 Objects, Stories & Discoveries from The Linnean Society of London. The brainchild of Head of Collections Isabelle Charmantier and Special Publications Manager Leonie Berwick, this beautiful paperback chronologically encompasses 50 items and stories from the Society's collections. With wonderful contributions from Fellows, staff, curators and researchers, we even picked up a few new facts about our collections along the way. Please do show your support for the Society and purchase your copy (www.linnean.org/L50). Also available are this year's Christmas card packs, utilising images from our collections, with 2020's line up including a stunning arctic
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